2018-03-15 15:12 GMT+01:00 Jeff King <p...@peff.net>: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Michele Locati wrote: > >> Using the --state-branch option allows us to perform incremental filtering. >> This may lead to having nothing to rewrite in subsequent filtering, so we >> need >> a way to recognize this case. >> So, let's exit with 2 instead of 1 when this "error" occurs. > > That sounds like a good feature. It doesn't look like we use "2" for > anything else currently. > >> --- >> git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > This should probably get a mention in the manpage at > Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt, too.
Yes, I agree it would be useful. What about this addition right after the "Remap to ancestor" section? EXIT CODE --------- In general, this command will fail with an exit status of `1` in case of errors. When the filter can't fine anything to rewrite, the exit status is `2`. -- Michele
